Ask Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-07-21 -- 2019-07-27

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 27, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• PostgreSQL Wins 2019 O'Reilly Lifetime Achievement Award
  
• Ask HN: Why is programming editing text?
  
• Ask HN: Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox compared to Chrome?
  
• Ask HN: What are some terminal tricks you wish you knew sooner?
  
• Tell HN: Docker just ate 19GB of production data
  
• Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?
  
• Ask HN: Recommendations for AI generated music software?
  
• Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext
  
• Ask HN: What did you do when you suddenly got rich?
  
• Ask HN: Twitter perma-banned my popular bot for a false reason
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-07-14 -- 2019-07-20

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 20, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: When does it make sense to roll your own X?
  
• Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
  
• Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy?
  
• Ask HN: How do you personally learn?
  
• Ask HN: Best way to relearn basic math?
  
• Ask HN: How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?
  
• Tell HN: Pluralsight and the dark-pattern of auto-renewals
  
• Ask HN: Anyone Using CockroachDB in Production?
  
• Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?
  
• Ask HN: Are Lucene/Solr/ES Still Used for Search?
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-07-07 -- 2019-07-13

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Ask HN: Plant a Trillion Trees Campaign?
  
• Expecting programmers to problem solve for 8 hours is stupid
  
• Ask HN: How do you maintain balance between all the things you want to do?
  
• Ask HN: How do you read and understand an open-source project?
  
• Ask HN: Has anyone dissolved a Stripe Atlas company?
  
• Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?
  
• Ask HN: Invited by Facebook for privacy roundtable. What questions should I ask?
  
• Tell HN: I came up with an interesting way to do decentralized account recovery
  
• Stripe's API was down again
  
• Innocent woman arrested in false-positive in facial recognition system in Brazil
  

Weekly Ask Hacker News for 2019-06-30 -- 2019-07-06

The 10 highest-rated "Ask HN" (or more generally, submissions without links) on Hacker News in the week ending July 06, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Ask Hacker News Weekly are:

• Tell HN: Social media strike proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder
  
• Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?
  
• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)
  
• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)
  
• Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?
  
• Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?
  
• Ask HN: What are some fun projects to try out on a spare Linux file server?
  
• Ask HN: Why are modern music players so bad at playing music in random order?
  
• Ask HN: What are you working on?
  
• Ask HN: Best office chair for home office work?